UNIT 4 : MOVIE TRAILERS & VIDEO CLIPS

1) When was the last time you want to
give up on doing something very important?

2) When was the last time you had to sacrifice for someone
through the good and bad times?

Watch the video clip and listen carefully on
the words used during the conversation.

LISTENING EXERCISE:

1) What made Lloyd want to drive to Aspen?

a. to return the briefcase
of this woman

b. for adventure

c. he wants to look
for money

2) What was Lloyd sick and tired of? Choose
which of these he didn't mention.

a. He is sick and tired of not
having anybody in his life

b. He is sick and tired of being
a nobody

c. He is sick and tired of his
ego

3) What was Harry demanding at first?

a. He wants to
go ahead and drive Lloyd to Aspen

b. He wants to stay and get a
job and save for a worm store

c. He wants to pay
their creditors

4) What was Harry sick and tired of primarily?

a. He was always
running away from the collectors

b. He was running
away from creditors

c. He was
always job hunting

5) What did Harry think after
quietly listening to Lloyd?

a. He is not
sure if he will drive him to Aspen

b. He
completely disagrees to go to Aspen

c. He feels
compassion on Lloyd and agrees to drive to Aspen

TEXT COMPLETION EXERCISE:

Please play the video again and
listen carefully to the conversation. Supply the missing words in the
blank.

LLOYD: Oh, that's it. I've had it with its
dump. We have no food, we have no jobs. Our pets' heads are
falling off!

HARRY: Okay, just calm down!

LLO YD: What the * are we doing here
Harry? We gotta get out of this ______.

HARRY: And go where? Where do we go?

LLOYD: I'll tell you _____. Some place
______. A place where the beer flows like wine. Where ________
women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I'm
talking about a ______ place called Aspen.

HARRY: I don't know Lloyd, the French are
assholes.Wait a minute, I know what you're upto Mister. Yah, you just
wanna go to Aspen and find that girl who lost her _______ and you need me
to ______ you there. _______? Am I right?

LLOYD: Yah, so, yah so? So I wanna go
some _____where we know _______who can plug us into the social
pipeline?

HARRY: No, no, no Lloyd. No. I say we
stay here, we hunt for jobs, and keep ______ our _______for the worm
store.I don't _______ about you but I'm
getting_____and _____of running from
creditors.

LLOYD: Do you know what I'm sick and
tired of, Harry? I'm ___ and _____ of having to eke
my way through _____. I'm sick and tired of being
a______. But most of all, I'm sick and tired of _______
nobody.

HARRY: Ok, Lloyd. Aspen it
is.

VOCABULARY BUILDING:

KEY VOCABULARY:

Please write your own
original sentence using the new words below.

creditors (noun): A person to whom money is
owed.

"Make sure to pay off your
creditor before you buy anything for yourself. "

nobody
(noun): A person of no importance or influence; (pronoun): not
anyone

"Who do you think he is?
He is a nobody to us."

"Nobody wants to clean up the kitchen after meals."

wanna (slang): want
to

"I wanna live in a land where I can be free to breathe
fresh air all the time."

eked out (phrasal verb): to get or
achieve (a living, victory, success) with great difficulty

"The company
eked out a tiny profit last year."

IDIOMS:

down in dumps: feeling very
sad

"I guess I'm just down in the dumps."

sick and tired : thoroughly weary or
bored

"
We can never be sick and tired of serving others with our God-given
talents."

plugged in: to be in the
know on a certain subject; to make friends for personal gain.

"Thanks for introducing me to that guy. He'll keep me
plugged in on what's happening."

social pipeline: a
group of people who knows each other through
interaction

"I want to be plugged in a social
pipeline and meet new friends."

MATCHING EXERCISE:

Match the items on B (below) with
the items on A left.Select the best answer to complete the missing
words in the sentence.

A B

eked out
1) Please stay away from _______ or you'll end up broke in the
future.

plug
2) The guy is _____ of picking up those unattended
garbage on the streets. So clean up your mess.

nobody 3)
A person who can be trusted with small things can also be trusted with big
things.

creditors I
know that you cannot be called a _________ when you can be trusted with
my pets.

Talk with your partner using
the new words or idioms about the following situation:

1) You are on a trip to New York
with your friend and found out that the person sitted next to you in the train
left his cellphone so you took it and want to give it back to him but
he couldn't be found.

2) You are in trouble with
creditors chasing you and all you can do is either run away or pay them
off but you are out of job.